Cinco complicaciones comunes en heridas quirúrgicas: prevención y manejo

Five common complications with surgical wounds: prevention and management On 3 September 2020, at the Semana HEI virtual conference, vascular surgeon Juan Francisco Benalcázar Freire, from Hospital de Especialidades de las Fuerzas Armadas in Quito, Ecuador, presented a webinar describing the most common issues when facing surgical wounds. In this report, Dr Benalcázar summarises the key take-away messages from his talk and encourages health professionals not to focus on surgical site infection (SSI) alone, but also on other five common complications in surgical wounds.